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3/25/2013

"Spring...An Experience In Immortality"

Spring has always been my favorite time of year and the first buds and blooms always turn my thoughts to digging in the dirt and hopes of beautiful fragrant flowers soon.

Seems the emergence of the growing season, when earth awakes again, has inspired a lot of others to express feelings about Spring also and some of their thoughts are below. These photos include those I took last spring on a wildflower tour and the results of what I planted in the dirt last spring. I just planted my annuals last week and am afraid the wildflowers are not going to be as abundant this year for lack of rain. I will be

headed back to the hills soon to check them out and take more scenic shots. I've started a series of longhorn/bluebonnets paintings I intend to give for gifts and I need some more original

backgrounds. I can always add a few flowers if I can't photograph enough. :)

"It'sspringfever.
That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want —oh, you don't
quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache,
you want it so!"

—Mark Twain

"The beautifulspringcame;
and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

—Harriet Ann Jacobs

Morning Glories are glorious.

"The force ofSpring—
mysterious,
fecund,
powerful beyond measure."

—Michael Garofalo

“You can cut all the
flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

"Spring—an
experience in immortality."

—Henry D. Thoreau

“When spring came,
even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The
only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making
engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of
happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

― Ernest Hemingway

"Expect to have hope
rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons
in life do not last. Thespringrains
will come again." ...(Please send them to Texas soon!"

—Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Is the spring
coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the
sunshine...”--Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

That blue patch in the distance are bluebonnets.

This is typical Texas Hill Country

“Spring is the time
of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy

"Never yet was a
springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom."

—Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“In the spring, at
the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

"Science has never
drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunnySpringday."

—W. Earl Hall

“It is spring again.
The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

"Springis nature's way of saying, "Let's
party!"

—Robin Williams

“I enjoy the spring
more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
― Virginia Woolf

"I love spring anywhere,
but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden."

—Ruth Stout

“I suppose the best
kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle

“It was such a
spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a
longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and
fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.”
― John Galsworthy, The Forsythe Saga

AndSpringarose
on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do get lots of butterfly's but they are difficult to photograph. I also get

many monarchs on their migratory way back to Mexico every fall. They love the lantana we have in the flowerbeds and sometimes thereare dozens of them feeding at the same time.

This is one of the revolving "Bevo's"...mascot of the University Of Texas.

10 comments:

I love spring and can't wait for it to really arrive here. Your pictures are beautiful and made me long to get my hands dirty planting. The quotes are all excellent- I especially like the one from M. Atwood!

I plan to stop back and enjoy these again while I wait for the buds to start blooming. :) Thanks for sharing!~Jess

Thanks Jess...the weatherman had promised last week we had seen our last frost but I had to keep my fingers crossed the last two nights after he changed his forecast to "possible" frost. Thankfully for all my flowers and the trees it didn't drop quite that low. Everything is budding out here...except the crepe myrtles which are usually the last.